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Quotes About Purpose

Si todo lo que haces, lo haces para hacer otra cosa, ¿cuándo llegas al final de todo? Sisi
~ William Nicholson
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
~ William Osler
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
~ William Osler
Cualquier colombiano lo sabe: aquí nada sirve a un propósito público. Aquí sólo existen intereses particulares. El colombiano sólo concibe las relaciones personales, sólo concibe su reducido interés personal o familiar, y a ese único fin subordina toda su actividad pública y privada.
~ William Ospina
Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too.
~ William Paley
And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God.
~ William Peter Blatty
Y tal vez el propio Satán, a pesar de sí mismo, sirva de alguna manera para cumplir la voluntad de Dios.
~ William Peter Blatty
why would an eye want to form?
~ William Peter Blatty
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
~ William S. Burroughs
In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
~ William Saroyan
What, really, do we do with our lives?
~ William Scott Wilson
Your real intent should be not to die with weapons uselessly worn at your side.
~ William Scott Wilson
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
~ William Seward
Many things, having full referenceTo one consent, may work contrariously;As many arrows, loosed several ways,Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;As many lines close in the dial's center;So may a thousand actions, once afoot,End in one purpose, and be all well borneWithout defeat.
~ William Shakespeare
There's place and means for every man alive.
~ William Shakespeare
Every why hath a wherefore.
~ William Shakespeare
O! that a man might knowThe end of this day's business, ere it come.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.
~ William Shakespeare
The very life-blood of our enterprise.
~ William Shakespeare
I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.
~ William Shakespeare
I will tell you my drift.
~ William Shakespeare
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
~ William Shakespeare
The "why" is plain as way to parish church.
~ William Shakespeare
Every way makes my gain.
~ William Shakespeare